Post by JamesB on Nov 18, 2013 13:23:07 GMT

Come on, we need to get the last one out of our system

This is increasingly looking like the proverbial relegation six-pointer. And it provides evidence that other teams have had it worse than us. At one point this season, Accrington had 8 competitive defeats in a row, and 12 without a win (10 in the league). However, they are now unbeaten in their last four league games, with wins over Bristol Rovers, Morecambe and Scunthorpe and a draw at home to Wycombe. Up until that run, they hadn't won a league game this season - something must have dramatically changed in their mentality

Manager James Beattie is still registered as a player but hasn't appeared this season. After starting his career in the Premier League with Blackburn, he moved to Southampton as part of the 1998 deal that saw Kevin Davies move in the opposite direction. Southampton did much better out that deal than Blackburn - Beattie emerged as a regular goalscorer, the peak being 23 goals in 38 league appearances in the 2002-03 season, behind only Thierry Henry and Ruud van Nistelrooy, as Southampton finished 8th. Beattie also made five England appearances during 2003 under Sven-Goran Eriksson. In January 2005, Everton paid £8 million for his services, but he never found the same form, beginning the journeyman section of his career. After three seasons on Merseyside, he then moved to Sheffield Utd, Stoke City, Rangers, Blackpool and returned to the Blades before finally winding up at Accrington last season, taking just two seasons to drop from the Premier League to League Two. His 7 goals last year were his first since he was at Stoke in 2009-10.

Post by Register on Nov 22, 2013 11:22:18 GMT

Oh no, it looks like O'Conner will be unfit for the Accrington match...does this mean we will have to play with our own fit to play contracted players? What chance do we have...well none actually...with or without O'Conner! Nothing coming out of TQ1 (not even by twitter) to make me think this match will be anything but a continuance of our present form. On saying that though, I was once looking at a quarter of a century prison sentence which never happened (thank you Padmasambhava) so let us take some sort of positives from that.

My Karma persuaded them

Therefore, I received this harm

Because of that, didn't I make that person fall in the hole of the hell.

Post by petef on Nov 22, 2013 11:55:16 GMT

Oh no, it looks like O'Conner will be unfit for the Accrington match...does this mean we will have to play with our own fit to play contracted players? What chance do we have...well none actually...with or without O'Conner! Nothing coming out of TQ1 (not even by twitter) to make me think this match will be anything but a continuance of our present form. On saying that though, I was once looking at a quarter of a century prison sentence which never happened (thank you Padmasambhava) so let us take some sort of positives from that.

Bugger what were you "alleged to have done Reg? Cant see much change in fortune to be honest but we will at least be playing side that is closer to our own standard I suppose and it will be a case perhaps of who wants it most.Lost this one in a whimper and the knives will be sharpened and drawn for sure.

Post by Register on Nov 22, 2013 12:26:26 GMT

Oh no, it looks like O'Conner will be unfit for the Accrington match...does this mean we will have to play with our own fit to play contracted players? What chance do we have...well none actually...with or without O'Conner! Nothing coming out of TQ1 (not even by twitter) to make me think this match will be anything but a continuance of our present form. On saying that though, I was once looking at a quarter of a century prison sentence which never happened (thank you Padmasambhava) so let us take some sort of positives from that.

Bugger what were you "alleged to have done Reg? Cant see much change in fortune to be honest but we will at least be playing side that is closer to our own standard I suppose and it will be a case perhaps of who wants it most.Lost this one in a whimper and the knives will be sharpened and drawn for sure.

I'll PM you shortly...have to balance my bloody radiators at the moment.

My Karma persuaded them

Therefore, I received this harm

Because of that, didn't I make that person fall in the hole of the hell.

Post by Swanny on Nov 22, 2013 17:20:35 GMT

i see the O.S. confirms Tonge was not played last week due to an injury and he should be ok tomorrow. I'm quite relieved at that as I assumed he was dropped last week. He's done pretty well this season - he's certainly one of Knill's better signings. Bearing in mind O'Connor's injury I expect the back four will be Tonge, Pearce, Downes and Cruise as he did well at left back last week. I expect to see Mansell back in central midfield as I thought Mozika and McCallum MaCourt were awful last week and was the main reason we were so poor. I expect Chappel will start on one wing but it will be interesting to see who the other winger will be and the strikers. None of them have hardly shone on a consistent level. Any thoughts?

As for a prediction - Accrington 2 Torquay 0 looks the most likely scoreline to me but let's hope and pray a bit for something positive. I just fear the rot has set in and we are on one of those awful runs like last season. All will become clearer come 5pm tomorrow.

Post by Ditmar van Nostrilboy on Nov 22, 2013 17:40:37 GMT

I expect to see Mansell back in central midfield as I thought Mozika and McCallum were awful last week and was the main reason we were so poor.

I take it you mean McCourt in midfield Swanny?

Yes they did seem not to be totally at the races and I thought McCourt spent too much time giving hospital passes to the rest of the team. To be honest though, I saw a few touches from Mozzy that made me think with a couple more League games to get his match fitness up (which is a different beast to general fitness), he could well be a useful asset in midfield. Chappel remains for me the problem, as playing him on the left just seem so wrong. Play him in his strongest position for gods sake, because Chapple on the right plus AN Other on the left is a greater sum than Chapple on the left and anyone else at the club on the right........

Post by petef on Nov 23, 2013 14:36:55 GMT

I'll PM you shortly...have to balance my bloody radiators at the moment.

Is this some sort of novelty circus act? :-) You could do the half time entertainment Reg!![/quote]

That put a smile on my face. No chance of me balancing radiators on any part of my body...not with my bloody hips...one of which comes out in a month or so! <crying smilie>

Know that feeling Reg mine play up this time of year.

Team shuffling again and O'Conner starts. picked again apart from his goals at Bury he has looked dreadful as a target man no pace whatsoever and didn't win a thing in the air in the last two games lets hope he proves me wrong.